Use Keras to transfer image style with ibm-watson-machine-learning

This notebook contains the steps and code required to demonstrate style transfer technique using Watson Machine Learning Service. It introduces commands for getting data, training_definition persistance to Watson Machine Learning repository and model training.

Some familiarity with Python is helpful. This notebook uses Python 3.9.

Learning goals

The learning goals of this notebook are:

• Working with Watson Machine Learning service.
• Training Deep Learning models (Keras).

Contents

1. Setup
2. Create model definition
3. Create experiment
4. Train model
5. Results
6. Clean up
7. Summary and next steps

1. Set up the environment

Before you use the sample code in this notebook, you must perform the following setup tasks:

• Create a Watson Machine Learning (WML) Service instance (a free plan is offered and information about how to create the instance can be found here).

Connection to WML

Authenticate the Watson Machine Learning service on IBM Cloud. You need to provide platform api_key and instance location.

You can use IBM Cloud CLI to retrieve platform API Key and instance location.

API Key can be generated in the following way:

ibmcloud login
ibmcloud iam api-key-create API_KEY_NAME

In result, get the value of api_key from the output.

Location of your WML instance can be retrieved in the following way:

ibmcloud login --apikey API_KEY -a https://cloud.ibm.com
ibmcloud resource service-instance WML_INSTANCE_NAME

In result, get the value of location from the output.

Tip: Your Cloud API key can be generated by going to the Users section of the Cloud console. From that page, click your name, scroll down to the API Keys section, and click Create an IBM Cloud API key. Give your key a name and click Create, then copy the created key and paste it below. You can also get a service specific url by going to the Endpoint URLs section of the Watson Machine Learning docs. You can check your instance location in your Watson Machine Learning (WML) Service instance details.

You can also get service specific apikey by going to the Service IDs section of the Cloud Console. From that page, click Create, then copy the created key and paste it below.

Action: Enter your api_key and location in the following cell.

api_key = 'PASTE YOUR PLATFORM API KEY HERE'
location = 'PASTE YOUR INSTANCE LOCATION HERE'

wml_credentials = {
    "apikey": api_key,
    "url": 'https://' + location + '.ml.cloud.ibm.com'
}

Install and import the ibm-watson-machine-learning package

Note: ibm-watson-machine-learning documentation can be found here.

!pip install ibm-watson-machine-learning

from ibm_watson_machine_learning import APIClient

client = APIClient(wml_credentials)

Working with spaces

First of all, you need to create a space that will be used for your work. If you do not have space already created, you can use Deployment Spaces Dashboard to create one.

• Click New Deployment Space
• Create an empty space
• Select Cloud Object Storage
• Select Watson Machine Learning instance and press Create
• Copy space_id and paste it below

Tip: You can also use SDK to prepare the space for your work. More information can be found here.

Action: Assign space ID below

space_id = 'PASTE YOUR SPACE ID HERE'

You can use list method to print all existing spaces.

client.spaces.list(limit=10)

To be able to interact with all resources available in Watson Machine Learning, you need to set space which you will be using.

client.set.default_space(space_id)

'SUCCESS'

1.1 Working with Cloud Object Storage

• Create a Cloud Object Storage (COS) instance (a lite plan is offered and information about how to order storage is here).

  • After you create COS instance, go to your COS dashboard.
  • In Service credentials tab, click New Credential.

  • Add the inline configuration parameter: {"HMAC":true}, click Add.

    This configuration parameter adds the following section to the instance credentials, (for use later in this notebook):

    "cos_hmac_keys": {
          "access_key_id": "***",
          "secret_access_key": "***"
     }

Import the Boto library, which allows Python developers to manage COS.

import ibm_boto3
from ibm_botocore.client import Config
import os
import json
import warnings
import urllib
import time
warnings.filterwarnings('ignore')

Action: Enter your COS credentials in the following cell.
You can find these credentials in your COS instance dashboard under the Service credentials tab.
Note the HMAC key, described in set up the environment is included in these credentials.

cos_credentials = {
  "apikey": "***",
  "cos_hmac_keys": {
    "access_key_id": "***",
    "secret_access_key": "***"
  },
  "endpoints": "***",
  "iam_apikey_description": "***",
  "iam_apikey_name": "***",
  "iam_role_crn": "***",
  "iam_serviceid_crn": "***",
  "resource_instance_id": "***"
}

api_key = cos_credentials['apikey']
service_instance_id = cos_credentials['resource_instance_id']
auth_endpoint = 'https://iam.cloud.ibm.com/identity/token'
service_endpoint = 'https://s3.us-south.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud'

Create the Boto resource by providing type, endpoint_url and credentials.

cos = ibm_boto3.resource('s3',
                         ibm_api_key_id=api_key,
                         ibm_service_instance_id=service_instance_id,
                         ibm_auth_endpoint=auth_endpoint,
                         config=Config(signature_version='oauth'),
                         endpoint_url=service_endpoint)

Create the buckets you will use to store training data and training results.

Note: Bucket names must be unique.

from uuid import uuid4

bucket_uid = str(uuid4())
buckets = ['training-data-' + bucket_uid, 'training-results-' + bucket_uid]

for bucket in buckets:
    if not cos.Bucket(bucket) in cos.buckets.all():
        print('Creating bucket "{}"...'.format(bucket))
        try:
            cos.create_bucket(Bucket=bucket)
        except ibm_boto3.exceptions.ibm_botocore.client.ClientError as e:
            print('Error: {}.'.format(e.response['Error']['Message']))

Creating bucket "training-data-c2d261bb-a928-4d5f-a5bc-24b1fb174a95"...
Creating bucket "training-results-c2d261bb-a928-4d5f-a5bc-24b1fb174a95"...

You have now created two new buckets.
Display a list of buckets for your COS instance to verify that the buckets were created.

# Display the buckets
print(list(cos.buckets.all()))

1.2 Download training data and upload it to COS buckets

Download your training data and upload them to the 'training-data' bucket. Then, create a list of links for training dataset.

The following code snippet creates the STYLE_DATA folder and downloads the files from the links to the folder.

# Create folder
data_dir = 'STYLE_DATA'
if not os.path.isdir(data_dir):
    os.mkdir(data_dir)

links = ['https://github.com/fchollet/deep-learning-models/releases/download/v0.1/vgg19_weights_tf_dim_ordering_tf_kernels_notop.h5',
         'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Van_Gogh_-_Starry_Night_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/1513px-Van_Gogh_-_Starry_Night_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg',
         'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Krak%C3%B3w_239a.jpg',
         'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Kandinsky%2C_Lyrisches.jpg']

# Download the links to the folder
for i in range(len(links)):
    if 'Gogh' in links[i]: 
        filepath = os.path.join(data_dir, 'van_gogh.jpg')
    elif 'Krak' in links[i]: 
        filepath = os.path.join(data_dir, 'krakow.jpg')
    elif 'Kandinsky' in links[i]:
        filepath = os.path.join(data_dir, 'kandinsky.jpg')
    else:
        filepath = os.path.join(data_dir, os.path.join(links[i].split('/')[-1]))

    if not os.path.isfile(filepath):
        print(links[i])
        urllib.request.urlretrieve(links[i], filepath)

# List the files in the STYLE_DATA folder        
!ls STYLE_DATA

kandinsky.jpg
krakow.jpg
van_gogh.jpg
vgg19_weights_tf_dim_ordering_tf_kernels_notop.h5

Base image: Cracow - main market square

from IPython.display import Image
Image(filename=os.path.join(data_dir, 'krakow.jpg'), width=1000)

Style image 1: Vincent Van Gogh - Starry Night

Image(filename=os.path.join(data_dir, 'van_gogh.jpg'), width=500)

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Style image 2: Kandinsky Lyrisches

Image(filename=os.path.join(data_dir, 'kandinsky.jpg'), width=600)

Upload the data files to the created buckets.

bucket_name = buckets[0]
bucket_obj = cos.Bucket(bucket_name)

for filename in os.listdir(data_dir):
    with open(os.path.join(data_dir, filename), 'rb') as data: 
        bucket_obj.upload_file(os.path.join(data_dir, filename), filename)
        print('{} is uploaded.'.format(filename))

van_gogh.jpg is uploaded.
kandinsky.jpg is uploaded.
krakow.jpg is uploaded.
vgg19_weights_tf_dim_ordering_tf_kernels_notop.h5 is uploaded.

Let's see the list of all the buckets and their contents.

for obj in bucket_obj.objects.all():
    print('Object key: {}'.format(obj.key))
    print('Object size (kb): {}'.format(obj.size/1024))

1.3 Create connections to a COS bucket.

datasource_type = client.connections.get_datasource_type_uid_by_name('bluemixcloudobjectstorage')

input_conn_meta_props= {
    client.connections.ConfigurationMetaNames.NAME: "Input COS connection",
    client.connections.ConfigurationMetaNames.DATASOURCE_TYPE: datasource_type,
    client.connections.ConfigurationMetaNames.PROPERTIES: {
        'bucket': buckets[0],
        'access_key': cos_credentials['cos_hmac_keys']['access_key_id'],
        'secret_key': cos_credentials['cos_hmac_keys']['secret_access_key'],
        'iam_url': auth_endpoint,
        'url': service_endpoint
    }
}

output_conn_meta_props= {
    client.connections.ConfigurationMetaNames.NAME: f"Output COS connection",
    client.connections.ConfigurationMetaNames.DATASOURCE_TYPE: datasource_type,
    client.connections.ConfigurationMetaNames.PROPERTIES: {
        'bucket': buckets[1],
        'access_key': cos_credentials['cos_hmac_keys']['access_key_id'],
        'secret_key': cos_credentials['cos_hmac_keys']['secret_access_key'],
        'iam_url': auth_endpoint,
        'url': service_endpoint
    }
}

input_conn_details = client.connections.create(meta_props=input_conn_meta_props)
output_conn_details = client.connections.create(meta_props=output_conn_meta_props)

Creating connections...
SUCCESS
Creating connections...
SUCCESS

input_connection_id = client.connections.get_uid(input_conn_details)
output_connection_id = client.connections.get_uid(output_conn_details)

You are done with COS, and you are now ready to train your model!

2. Create model definitions

2.1 Prepare model definition metadata

Hint: The final effect depends on number of iterations, and that the number of iterations impacts the training time.

# Set the number of iterations.
iters = 20

model_definition_1_metadata = {
    client.model_definitions.ConfigurationMetaNames.NAME: "style transfer van gogh",
    client.model_definitions.ConfigurationMetaNames.DESCRIPTION: "style transfer van gogh",
    client.model_definitions.ConfigurationMetaNames.COMMAND: f"python3 style_transfer.py krakow.jpg van_gogh.jpg krakow --iter {iters}",
    client.model_definitions.ConfigurationMetaNames.PLATFORM: {"name": "python", "versions": ["3.9"]},
    client.model_definitions.ConfigurationMetaNames.VERSION: "2.0",
    client.model_definitions.ConfigurationMetaNames.SPACE_UID: space_id
}

model_definition_2_metadata = {
    client.model_definitions.ConfigurationMetaNames.NAME: "style transfer kandinsky",
    client.model_definitions.ConfigurationMetaNames.DESCRIPTION: "style transfer kandinsky",
    client.model_definitions.ConfigurationMetaNames.COMMAND: f"python3 style_transfer.py krakow.jpg kandinsky.jpg krakow --iter {iters}",
    client.model_definitions.ConfigurationMetaNames.PLATFORM: {"name": "python", "versions": ["3.9"]},
    client.model_definitions.ConfigurationMetaNames.VERSION: "2.0",
    client.model_definitions.ConfigurationMetaNames.SPACE_UID: space_id
}

2.2 Get sample model definition content file from git

Hint: You may need to install wget using following command !pip install wget

import wget
filename_definition = 'STYLE.zip'

if not os.path.isfile(filename_definition):
    filename_definition = wget.download('https://github.com/IBM/watson-machine-learning-samples/raw/master/cloud/definitions/keras/style_transfer/STYLE.zip')

Tip: Convert below cell to code and run it to see model deinition's code.

!unzip -oqd . STYLE.zip && cat style_transfer.py

2.3 Publish model definitions

Store definition 1

model_definition_details_1 = client.model_definitions.store(filename_definition, model_definition_1_metadata)
model_definition_id_1 = client.model_definitions.get_id(model_definition_details_1)

Store definition 2

model_definition_details_2 = client.model_definitions.store(filename_definition, model_definition_2_metadata)
model_definition_id_2 = client.model_definitions.get_id(model_definition_details_2)

List the stored definitions

client.model_definitions.list(limit=5)

3. Create deep learning experiment

3.1 Prepare experiment metadata

experiment_metadata = {
    client.repository.ExperimentMetaNames.NAME: "Transfer style experiment",
    client.repository.ExperimentMetaNames.TRAINING_REFERENCES: [
        {
            "model_definition": {
                "id": model_definition_id_1,
                "hardware_spec": {
                    "name": "K80",
                    "nodes": 1
                },
                "software_spec": {
                    "name": "tensorflow_rt22.1-py3.9"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "model_definition": {
                "id": model_definition_id_2,
                "hardware_spec": {
                    "name": "K80",
                    "nodes": 1
                },
                "software_spec": {
                    "name": "tensorflow_rt22.1-py3.9"
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}

3.2 Publish experiment to repository

experiment_details = client.repository.store_experiment(
    meta_props=experiment_metadata
)
experiment_id = client.repository.get_experiment_id(experiment_details)

3.3 Get experiment details

print(json.dumps(client.experiments.get_details(experiment_id), indent=2))

{
  "entity": {
    "training_references": [
      {
        "model_definition": {
          "hardware_spec": {
            "id": "cf70f086-916d-4684-91a7-264c49c6d425",
            "name": "K80"
          },
          "id": "9c240e51-d2c3-4bc6-a6b1-8a9b72a23d58",
          "software_spec": {
            "id": "c4032338-2a40-500a-beef-b01ab2667e27",
            "name": "tensorflow_2.1-py3.7"
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "model_definition": {
          "hardware_spec": {
            "id": "cf70f086-916d-4684-91a7-264c49c6d425",
            "name": "K80"
          },
          "id": "a25a86ab-a569-45d8-b72b-39038d916187",
          "software_spec": {
            "id": "c4032338-2a40-500a-beef-b01ab2667e27",
            "name": "tensorflow_2.1-py3.7"
          }
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "metadata": {
    "created_at": "2021-02-15T10:52:01.830Z",
    "id": "09ad3919-0eb8-438e-8f85-3f1c947f21db",
    "modified_at": "2021-02-15T10:52:01.830Z",
    "name": "Transfer style experiment",
    "owner": "IBMid-5500067NJD",
    "space_id": "74133c06-dce2-4dfc-b913-2e0dc8efc750"
  },
  "system": {
    "warnings": []
  }
}

4. Train model

4.1 Prepare models definitions metadata

training_metadata = {
   client.training.ConfigurationMetaNames.NAME: "style transfer van gogh",
    client.training.ConfigurationMetaNames.SPACE_UID: space_id,
    client.training.ConfigurationMetaNames.DESCRIPTION: "test training modeldef style transfer van gogh",
    client.training.ConfigurationMetaNames.TAGS :[{
      "value": "keras transfer image style",
      "description": "apply van gogh style to images"
    }],
    client.training.ConfigurationMetaNames.TRAINING_RESULTS_REFERENCE:  {
    "name": "MNIST results",
    "type": "connection_asset",
    "connection": {
        "id": output_connection_id,
    },
    "location": {
        "bucket": buckets[1],
        "file_name": "."
    },
  },
  client.training.ConfigurationMetaNames.EXPERIMENT:{
        "id": experiment_id,
  },
  client.training.ConfigurationMetaNames.TRAINING_DATA_REFERENCES: [
       {
      "name": "training_input_data",
      "type": "connection_asset",
      "connection": {
          "id": input_connection_id,
      },
      "location": {
        "bucket": buckets[0],
        "file_name": "."
      },
      "schema": {
        "id":"idmlp_schema",
        "fields": [
          {
            "name": "text",
            "type": "string"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

4.2 Train models in background

training = client.training.run(training_metadata)

4.3 Get training id and status

training_id = client.training.get_id(training)

print(client.training.get_status(training_id))

{'completed_at': '2021-02-15T10:57:08.909Z', 'running_at': '2021-02-15T10:52:17.277Z', 'state': 'completed'}

4.4 Get trainings details

training_details= client.training.get_details(training_id)
print(json.dumps(training_details, indent=2))

List trainings

client.training.list(limit=5)

Cancel training

You can cancel the training run by calling the method below.
Tip: If you want to delete train runs and results add hard_delete=True as a parameter.
Tip: Pick one of training_id_1 or training_id_2.

client.training.cancel(training_id_1)

5. Results - transferred styles images

Download transfered transfered photos of Cracow from COS

bucket_name = buckets[1]
bucket_obj = cos.Bucket(bucket_name)

transfered_images = []
model_id = 0

for obj in bucket_obj.objects.iterator():
        if model_id == 2:
            break
        if f"transfered_images/krakow_at_iteration_{iters}.png" in obj.key:
            image_name = f"transfered_krakow_{model_id}.png"
            transfered_images.append(image_name)
            model_id += 1

            bucket_obj.download_file(obj.key, image_name)

Cracow

Image(filename=os.path.join(data_dir, 'krakow.jpg'), width=1000)

Transfered Images

Image(filename=transfered_images[0], width=1000)

Image(filename=transfered_images[1], width=1000)

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6. Clean up

If you want to clean up all created assets:

• experiments
• trainings
• pipelines
• model definitions
• models
• functions
• deployments

please follow up this sample notebook.

7. Summary and next steps

You successfully completed this notebook! You learned how to use ibm-watson-machine-learning-client to run experiments.

Citations

• Rj1979, Kraków 239a, marked as public domain, more details on Wikimedia Commons
• Vincent van Gogh, Van Gogh - Starry Night - Google Art Project, marked as public domain, more details on Wikimedia Commons
• Wassily Kandinski, Kandinsky, Lyrisches, marked as public domain, more details on Wikimedia Commons

Author

Jan Sołtysik, Intern in Watson Machine Learning.

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